You basically, according to this, did one thing I never will do: voluntarily step into bottomless mud with nothing to hold onto to pull yourself back out. It's one of my rare phobic blocks.
Daniel is one of the people on the autistic spectrum who is, indeed, strongly linear-minded. He takes words literally, holds you to the letter of what you say, and... well, at this point I'm trying to figure out if this is from his having internalized all the "helpful corrections" that, as a schoolkid, he doesn't have a right to defend himself against, or if he indeed is wired that way normally, and this is just him as he is. Because I now believe that most of us get mixed up by having well-intentioned "help" slopped all over us while we're sitting there trying to work through a processing delay of normal duration, which the caregivers around us take for no brain activity because we are not talking while it is going on....
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Date: 2009-03-27 05:05 am (UTC)Daniel is one of the people on the autistic spectrum who is, indeed, strongly linear-minded. He takes words literally, holds you to the letter of what you say, and... well, at this point I'm trying to figure out if this is from his having internalized all the "helpful corrections" that, as a schoolkid, he doesn't have a right to defend himself against, or if he indeed is wired that way normally, and this is just him as he is. Because I now believe that most of us get mixed up by having well-intentioned "help" slopped all over us while we're sitting there trying to work through a processing delay of normal duration, which the caregivers around us take for no brain activity because we are not talking while it is going on....